The Political Economy of Virtue
Subtitle: Luxury, Patriotism, And the Origins of the French Revolution
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780801444791
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; Europe - France; History; Patriotism; History: World; Economics; Economic History; 18th century; France; Luxury; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline."--Jacket.